Hmm the problem I am having with the food harvester is, I use loot tickets on 23/11 and it fills my recruits and heroes so I end up using more ham to keep up with the recruits and heroes or just waste them… Yikes it’s maddening… Lol!!
The recruit and omni harvesters are sufficiently high up the POV that only advanced players are going to be able to get them. Those are the exact people who will be farming during Atlantis Rising, where the loot per flag is much better than Season 1 + harvester.
I got the omni harvester at level 49 on POV, and it’s essentially useless for me. What, I’m going to get 50% more farming 8/7 for a day? Whoopee!
To the extent they have value, it is only for beginning players, and so they should be much further down on the POV, and on the free path.
Well, you could do what I did just this week. I was short food and iron for embleming a hero. Since it’s not Atlantis, I didn’t want to wait for Atlantis, I was out of raid flags and didn’t want to use a carefully hoarded raid flask… I farmed S1 levels for food and iron. I had the WE flags so I used them. While I was auto- farming, I activated my food harvester (that’s what I was shortest on) and doubled my food.
While it’s not the end to world hunger, it gave me more food than I would have received by normal auto-farming during non-Atlantis times. I think that’s the thing people are forgetting. These relics aren’t something to use during Atlantis Rises. These are something that can be used (if wanted/needed) during the other times when you’re sitting at work auto-farming 8.7.
(Disclaimer - If my boss is on here, that was just a joke. Really. It was. I swear. )
By best suggestion regarding the harvesters is to simply allow them for use in season 2 and 3 as well.
Then they will not be as useless.
Its pretty nice that we get anything SG but the reality is, the harvesters are pretty weak compared to the other rewards especially since you dont have to grind to get an extra 40k food
did you actually do the math and figure out how much more you received???
Yes. I was auto-farming already when I remembered I had the food harvester so I checked how much food I got without it. I wanted to make sure it actually gave more. Once I activated it and ran through the same level (8.7) I checked again. I got more food.
While I wouldn’t go farm S1 and use the harvester as my main way of getting food, if I’m already auto-farming there and need the food… why not?
how much more? 10k or 100k? More is ambiguous
I don’t remember the exact amount of food you get from 8.7 but it was double. That’s what the food harvester gives you and that’s what I got.
actually, it gives you 50% more so if you ran it for 24 hours straight, without flasking which would be a waste considering what you can get from AR, and end up with about 38K which is 12k less than the free level 6 reward. At level 12, you should have received a 100k of iron so this is the reason people are not happy with them especially those who paid for premium to have something that is lesser then the previous levels. Personlly, I feel this is like when they gave us a board, bone and strap as a free gift during the xmas holidays and its pretty much useless
Why is everyone comparing the harvester output with AR? The two are not mutually exclusive!
No one is going to farm season 1 during AR unless they haven’t unlocked season two yet. Period. So comparing a harvester output to season 2 AR output is stupid.
Use the harvesters when you are farming outside of AR. It’s pretty simple.
If you’re done with quests and farming season 1 anyway, you may as well get more for your WE. If you wouldn’t use flasks to keep farming, don’t waste them just because you used a harvester.
Take today. PoV is done, so no random season 2 stage to do for daily challenges. No Rare Quest, Challenge Event, Costume Quest or Class Trial to use up WE. Are you going to sit on full WE, or use it to farm? If you’re farming anyway, you may as well use a harvester.
For the love of all that is holy, quit griping!!!
I farm season 1 a lot for midnight roots, Grimoire dust and large bones to make mana pots, tornados and harpoons for a much lower WE cost than any levels in season 2. The added food and iron from harvesters helps. So not at all useless to me. I run 6-8, 8-7 and 9-1 probabaly 30 times per day minimum.
Exactly my point. I don’t farm S2 except during AR. Any other time, I use all my spare WE on S1.
I routinely fram 23-9 because of it’s high XP value. the extra bene of added ham is nice. Using some of my red potions to get extra shots while I’m taping this. Multitask!!
I love how people expect like 3 and 4 times the food and iron from a POV item. That would be silly on SG’s part. It’s a very slow paced money making game. I get a chuckle sometimes reading these threads.
I have a gripe, but it may go in the ridiculous complaints thread. I am unable to like this post more than once. I tried many times but it wouldn’t put extra hearts no matter how hard I tried. Sad…
And, yes, I made a mistake in my post. I told you I didn’t pay attention to the amounts but you demanded to know the exact amounts. I got a noticeable amount more. It wasn’t the same as without the food harvester - it was more with it. 50%… 100%… 500%… whatever it’s supposed to give you. I told you I didn’t keep track yet you wanted to know the exact amount. So, deal with my quick, yet mistaken, math to get you to stop asking when it doesn’t matter. It was more.
I think the point of going up levels is your rewards should get better, not worse. How many people would have even tried to get to level 50 had they given the 4* meteors and dragon bones. Sorry if you dont get that and this was a thread of how useless these harvesters are and I agree with the title and you’re free to disagree. Enjoy and stay safe
I guess it could have been 100 more for all you care. To each there own but actually it would have been 800 more so glad you’re happy
Using while I’m writing this. I auto farm 23-9 for the XP. able to get 6400-7000 ham for each round. It not as great as maybe S2 but it auto farm and at level 64 I need all the xp/flag as possible
The harvester doesn’t double your food – it only increases it by 50%.
Anyway, I guess I can’t ever imagine being so desperate for food in the short term that I’d burn WE flags to farm season 1. Seems to me you’d have been a lot better off burning those flags during Atlantis Rising, and banking all the extra food in TC 20. And then if you need extra food down the road, you just take it out of TC 20.
I’m not saying that it is useless. I’m just saying that unless you’re going to burn WE flags (which is wildly inefficient compared to burning them during WE), it isn’t worth very much. The food one is kind of okay because it is a low-level reward. The real anomalies are the recruit and omni harvesters that you don’t get until level 46 and 49 on the POV.